Mr. Amber Jack

We are really looking forward to see a Sticks’N'sushi in London, since it will probably go directly in to the top10 with it’s high quality and taste.. It’s a mix between YoSushi and Zuma restaurant.

INGREDIENTS

Azuki bean puree

100g Azuki beans

1l Water

Tofu

80g Kuzu

400ml Water

400ml Dashi

Pinch of salt

100g Azuki bean puree

Sauce

200ml Dashi

100ml Dark soy sauce

10g Bonito flakes

10g Grated radish Daikon

5g Grated fresh ginger

60g Sesame paste

METHOD

Azuki bean puree

If using fresh azuki beans sock them in cold water for six hours, then boil in a pan of fresh water until tender.

If using tinned azuki beans, rinse the beans well in a colander then boil in a sauce pan of fresh water for 5 minuttes.

Crush the beans using a pestle and mortar.

Tofu

Combine the water, dashi and kuzu in a large saucepan. In a separate bowl, mix together the pureed azuki beans and sesame paste. Once well mixed, add to the water and dashi. Add a pinch of salt. Place the saucepan on a medium/high heat, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and continue stirring for a few minutes. Place on a flat baking tray, smooth with a knife and leave in iced water to cool.

Sauce

Heat the dashi and soy sauce over a medium/high heat.

Add the bonito flakes just before boiling. Stir well.

Remove from the heat and leave to cool.

To serve

Slice the tofu into four portions, arranging in individual bowls.

Pour the azuki bean sauce around the tofu and garnish with the fresh grated ginger and grated daikon.

maximum fun and enjoyment during what promises to be three exceptional days.

Day and night, the X Park, X Fest, the big stage and the bars of Tignes will be hosting events and entertainment organized

by X Games partners, and there’ll be no expenses spared to make the week the glittering highlight of the freestyle season.

Like the event itself, all entertainment is free of charge.

Note – DAVID GUETTA Thursday March 11th from 9pm to 11pm on the big stage at the Winter X Games Europe Tignes.

The famous DJ will be playing the sounds of X culture

PROGRAMME OF FESTIVITIES AT THE WINTER X GAMES EUROPE TIGNES SITE

-X PARK (the X Games snowpark)

Located at the foot of the Tichot chairlift

Daily from 10am to 6pm Hosted by UCPA providing equipment, young DJs all day long (Lyons DJ School),

Thursday, special mix session with DJ Assad

Big Air Coca-Cola Zero with Air bag (15m x 11m x 2.75 high)

Three Oakley modules: Wave box; Oakley Icon Box, Wallride

Medium Air & Quarter Air Quiksilver for advanced riders.

Daily from 10am to 11am “Learn 2 Ride” with official Oakley riders

Thursday March 11th, 4 to 4.30pm Quiksilver & Roxy Radar European Final (young rider talent spotting contest)

6.15pm Quiksilver & Roxy Radar Prize Ceremony

-X FEST (the X Games Village)

X FEST is made up of the event partners’ entertainment tents.

FUN RADIO DJ MICO will be hosting the Dancefloor at the X FEST.

Daily from 10am to 7pm

COCA-COLA ZERO Games Area / Request Area / Chill Zone

Prediction game based on the Impossible Award 2010

Live sculpture from the Impossible Award Trophy

SFR Games with over 1,000 daily prizes

Introducing FingerSnow, the game that lets you surf with your fingers! Lounge

area and free internet access. Watch highlights from the Winter X Games at

www.sfrglisse.fr

TIGNES Wii Competition – downhill skiing

Evolution 2: Sumo costume fights

Activation with DTC mountain bikes

QUIKSILVER, CARLSBERG & DEEZER Aloha from the Alps with Swedish bath, boardshorts and bikinis…

Hot drinks,

Performances by DJs chosen via an interactive game on Deezer, broadcast live

on the site.

Listening stations and Deezer blindtest

4pm to 6pm on Wednesday 10th and Friday 12th and

5pm to 7pm on Thursday, March 11th Quiksilver & Carlsberg tasting with Deezer DJ set

OAKLEY Request sessions

Daily from 4pm to 4.30pm A chance to win the X Goggles, specially created for the Winter X Games Europe

Tignes.

COREUPT “Predict your podium for each discipline”.

A MINI car to be won.

Special online video game CoreUPT / X Games, with prizes to be won every day

CoreUPT ski test and presentation of the 10/11 range

Thursday March 11th from 4pm to 5pm Autograph signing session with the CoreUPT riders.

Friday March 12th at 9pm Game results revealed, Mini presented to winner by Guerlin Chicherit and a

rider.

LG Presentation of latest LG products.

“Support your favourite rider by SMS” – text messages shown on the big screen.

SPLIT SECOND Disney Interactive Studio presents its new video game, SPLIT SECOND, an

action-arcade street racing video game

DAUPHINE LIBERE Newspaper & Magazine kiosk

PRINOTH

OFFICIAL STORE Official Winter X Games Europe Tignes 2010 merchandise on sale

WINTER X GAMES EUROPE

-THE BIG STAGE

Wednesday March 10th 7.45pm Winter X Games Europe Tignes Podium

9pm – 12am Fun Radio Opening Party with DJ International

Thursday March 11th 8.10pm Winter X Games Europe Tignes Podium

9pm – 11pm BURN with David Guetta

Friday March 12th 3.15pm Winter X Games Europe Tignes Podium

7.45pm Winter X Games Europe Tignes Podium

Impossible Award ceremony – Coca-Cola Zero

-IN THE RESORT OF TIGNES

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Maison de Tignes – Fun Radio competition with the chance to win a VIP day

pass for Friday March 12th.

Wednesday March 10th 10am – 7pm Quiksilver Store Val Claret – Free tests of Lib Technologie equipment.

4pm – 5pm Quiksilver Store Val Claret – Autograph signing session with riders from Team

Quiksilver & Roxy

9pm – 12am FUN RADIO live from the Diva hotel

11pm – 4am Coreupt at the Melting Pot with two live DJ sets

Thursday March 11th 6pm – 7pm Quiksilver Store Val Claret – Autograph signing session with riders from Team

Quiksilver & Roxy

9pm – 12am FUN RADIO live from the Diva hotel

11pm – 4am CoreUPT at the Melting Pot with Kya Bamba live

Friday March 12th 9pm – 1am Deezer at the Panoramic restaurant (win seats at the Deezer stand in the

Village), with Chinese Man and Missill.

11pm – 4am CoreUPT at the Melting Pot with Aliza Do Brazil performing live

12am – 4am Quiksilver « Bright Night » Closing Party at the Coffee Shop, Tignes Val Claret

with DJs Tha Trickaz and Freedy Jay

Carlsberg and Bacardi Parties: the Bacardi and Carlsberg hostesses + musicians will be entertaining at various venues in

Tignes: the Saloon Pub, the Loop Pub, the Grisly, the Carline, the Blue Girl Discothèque, the Arobaze Café and many others…

-ON THE WEB

Visit the LG blog – the riders’ official blog – for an insight into what’s going on behind the scenes at the Winter X Games

Europe.

www.lgblog.fr/category/xgames/

On myLG.fr, www.mylg.fr, a top competition with the winner getting to experience the Winter X Games Europe in style as a

VIP. A prize draw with the chance to win Oakley and LG products, CoreUPT skis and a very special pair of skis signed by the

CoreUPT team riders.

Deezer presents an electro choc programme on its Winter X Games Europe webradio station

www.deezer.com.fr/fr/#music/radios/winter-x-games-europe-115

Four bloggers will be contributing to a dedicated mini-site in partnership with Deezer and SFR: exclusive videos,

collaborative playlist, reports, photos, interviews…www.deezer.com/xgames

of athletes. Just a few weeks after the Winter X Games in Aspen and the Winter Olympics

in Vancouver, France will have the honour of hosting the world’s very best freestyle skiers and

snowboarders to round off a truly incredible winter in style. The French Alpine resort of Tignes

will be hosting the next three editions of the Winter X Games Europe. The first edition to be held

outside America is set to take place from March 10th to 12th 2010.

Canal+SPORT plans to screen over ten hours of live coverage from the event, with

Fabrice Lecuyer and his two special guests Anne-Flore Marxer and Candide Thovex, who’ll

be providing expert commentary on all the finals. Meanwhile, Stefan Etcheverry will be hosting

the show “LES SPÉCIALISTES LE CLUB”.

Last but not least, Canal+ will be screening a 52-minute documentary special taking a look

behind the scenes at the X Games.

Canal+SPORT ON ALL FRONTS WITH OVER 10 HOURS OF LIVE BROADCASTS.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10TH

6pm – 7.30pm Men’s Ski Superpipe Final

7.40pm – 8.30pm LES SPÉCIALISTES LE CLUB

THURSDAY, MARCH 11TH

1.30pm – 3pm Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final

4.30pm – 5.30pm Women’s Snowboard Superpipe Final

FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH

9.30am – 10.30am Women’s Ski Slopestyle Final

11.30am – 12.30pm Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final

1.30pm – 3pm Men’s Ski Slopestyle Final

4pm – 5pm Women’s Ski Superpipe Final

6pm – 7.30pm Men’s Snowboard Superpipe Final

Stefan Etcheverry, who joins the SPECIALISTS every Wednesday at 7.40pm to analyze the

week’s sports news, will be live from Tignes for an X Games special, where he’ll be joined by

some of the stars of winter sports.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13TH AT 6PM

To make sure you don’t miss a thing, CANAL+ will be screening a special programme

dedicated to the Winter X Games, going behind the scenes of an event that has become

a cultural phenomenon.

The Experts

Anne-Flore Marxer and Candide Thovex, stars of snowboarding and freestyle skiing,

to provide expert commentary for Canal+SPORT at the Winter X Games Europe

For the first ever edition of the Winter X Games Europe, Canal+SPORT is joining forces

with the best exponents of the discipline. Anne-Flore Marxer and Candide Thovex,

the two hugely successful specialists in snowboarding and freestyle skiing, will be providing

the benefit of all their expertise live on Canal+SPORT, alongside host Fabrice Lecuyer.

Fabrice will also be accompanied by Jean-Philippe Garcia, one of the pioneers of freestyle

(former coach of Doriane Vidal, silver medallist in Salt Lake City, and Mathieu Crépel, double

world champion), as well as Charlie Bellemin (halfpipe specialist with three World Cup

appearances).

ESPN AND Canal+EVENTS, CO-ORGANIZERS OF THE EVENT

ESPN and Canal+EVENTS are expecting close to 70,000 visitors over the three days

of the competition.

ESPN and Canal+EVENTS began their collaboration in June 2009. ESPN is responsible

for the entire sports side, while Canal+EVENTS, as manager of the Winter X Games

Europe, will be providing all its know-how in the areas of event organization, marketing

and TV production, and enlisting the Canal+ channels to cover the competition.

INTERNET

Watch interviews with our two experts on CANALSTREET.CANALPLUS.FR

Winter X Games broadcast live from Tignes

on March 10th to 12th 2010 on the website

winterxgameseurope.com

Press info

winterxgameseurope.canalplus.fr/press/index.html

Athlete bios

espn.go.com/action/athletes

Expert bios

winterxgameseurope.canalplus.fr

proride-agency.com/athletes.php

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The Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography Gallery presents ‘This is not a love song’

• The Empty quarter Fine Art Photography Gallery proudly presents ‘This is not a love song’ featuring six emerging photographers and one common denominator: the current state of Palestine;
• The exhibition opening is on March 9th, 7 pm- 10 pm, and will run until April 4th;
• The exhibition is a tribute to the few people on the planet who stand still to the test of time and tyranny;
• The exhibition includes works by Hady Sy, Noel Jabbour, Raed Bawayah, Steve Sabella, Richard Mosse and Sama Alshaibi.

Dubai- The Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography gallery proudly presents ‘This is not a love song’ an exhibition co-curated by Elie Domit and Hester Keijser, featuring six emerging photographers and one common denominator: the current state of Palestine. The exhibition opening is on March 9th, 7 pm- 10 pm, and will run until April 4th.

This is not a love song. This is not a theme exhibition. This is not a curators’ statement. This is a tribute to the few people on the planet who stand still to the test of time and tyranny, who do not bow down, blend in or give up, instead who show a tenacity and force of will and who have a defiant soul that cannot be crushed. These are the people who give hope because they do not pretend that there is an exit from the human condition, but who nevertheless want a solution. These are the people who keep reinventing themselves every time they get crushed to the ground.

‘This is not a love song’ is a gathering of voices and views, of positions taken and abandoned, issuing forth from and reflecting back on the situation Palestinians are facing on a day to day basis. We do not feign to give a comprehensive overview of contemporary Palestinian fine art photography. To comprehend this field, one must first apprehend the situation, and exactly that which is the nexus of the Palestinian question: that no one ever agrees on what is actually the case. We don’t get the picture, instead we get many pictures and perspectives, filtered through individual experiences, national interests, global politics, religious wars- with some of these perspectives being marketed more aggressively than others.

Amidst this turmoil of vying factions forever demanding we show our true colours, all that we bring is our bleeding heart. Yet if that is what it takes to be political, then the works brought together for ‘This is not a love song’ are political to the core. There is a stubborn insistence to make up one’s own mind and a decided refusal to be made party to the interests of others. We find a need to engage with the growing number of those forced to make a home amidst the ruins. We see an aversion against the spectacular outfit which the struggle for power dons for the eyes of the world. We sense a deeply felt conviction, that it is of utmost importance that we keep resisting the voices telling us that life is dispensable, who want us to forget that the only proportion that sets the scale is the human one. Art may not be able to change the real reality of life lived in conflict areas, what it can do is silently point out what we should not lose in sight of our struggle to survive.

Artist Biography:

Hady Sy (1964) is French, with a Lebanese mother and a Senegalese father, and is proud of his background, as his father is an eminent theologian and raised his children to show respect for others, for their religions and cultural differences. As a young student in Beirut in the grips of civil war, he had to cope with increasing rivalry, violence, hatred and even death. Since the time when he was taken hostage and threatened with execution, he has seen the image of the deadly weapon pointed at his temple, and has been going over the image in his mind. Hady Sy has used all his talent as an artist to serve a cause, speaking out against murders committed in the name of blind religious fanaticism.

Noel Jabbour is a Palestinian artist photographer born 1970 in Narareth. She studied in jerusalem and is now based in Berlin, Germany. For more than fifteen years she has been placing the marginal at centre stage in her artistic work. Her photographs consistently expose a human dimension, an angle of vision, or a profound insight which is usually unseen or ignored. She performs one of art’s important tasks: rendering visible what is otherwise invisible. Jabbour’s art-making praxis has a transformative dimension as well: it expands our range of vision and shows us things that are important to see. Her work derives its power from a deliberate affinity with documentary photography and is represented in major public and private collections.

Raed Bawayah was born in Palestine in 1971, and graduated in 2004 from the Musrara school of photography in Jerusalem, he currently lives and works in Paris.

Working in different countries, Raed Bawayah always takes into consideration the people ignored by the national and international community. Raed Bawayah has developed a special interest for the people considered as “marginalised.” Bawayah says, “In a time when the overwhelming majority of Palestinian photographers are caught in the grip of photojournalism and provides daily coverage of the conflict in occupied territories, I choose a different approach.”

Steve Sabella, born in Jerusalem in 1975, is a London based artist. Steve Sabella studied art photography at the jerusalem School of Photography and the New Media, and holds a BA in Visual Arts from the State University of New York. Sabella received his first MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster and his second MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s institute of Art in London.

Steve Sabella’s art has been exploring notions of imagined cities, hyper-relativities and the relationship of the subconscious mind with reality since the early 1990’s. Having realised that Jerusalem, Sabella’s city of birth exists no more, he started perceiving the harsh reality of living in ‘exile’ or as an alien. Jerusalem in exile explored the mental image Palestinians held of Jerusalem and has gained international attention, leading to its production into a short story documentary film. Consequently, Sabella is currently giving a visual form through photomontage to the ‘state of mind’ of living in ‘mental exile.’

Richard Mosse is an Irish artist based in New York. He is currently working internationally with the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts. Mosse received an MFA in photography from yale University in 2008. H is represented by Jack Shainma Gallery. In the coming year, Mosse’s work will be showing at Fotofest 2010 Biennial (Houston), Museu de Mataro (Barcelona), and the Musee d’Elysee (Lausanne.)

Sama Alshaibi is an artist born in Basara, Iraq to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother, and is now a naturalised American citizen. Alshaibi’s photography, video, film and performance works evoke the language of suffering, displacement and loss. She often uses her own body as both a protagonist and a site, linking struggles and the way that nations have affected and twisted lives in bodily performances. Her auto-ethnographic approach is informed by her own history of living in war, the double negation to her familial homelands and her countless encounters with those policing borders from the undesired.

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What is The Empty Quarter Gallery?The Empty Quarter Gallery’s mission is to create a world-class independent art gallery highlighting Fine Art photography from the exclusive to the extraordinary. The artwork displayed will showcase the rich culture, history and talents of the region as well as accomplished international artists.

Who is Hester Keijser? Hester Keijser is a visual artist and independent photography specialist currently based in the Netherlands. She studied at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, USA prior to receiving an MA in philosophy from the Universteit Leiden. Operating as mrs. deane, she authors a globally acclaimed blog on contemporary photography practices with a strong bias towards the European and Middle Eastern region. She is a frequent contributor to the Empty Quarter gallery, and currently works on a new book on Oman. Her work has had long time support from the prestigious Dutch National Fund for the Arts, Design and Architecture, and is part of many private and public collections.

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For further information on the gallery and photography, please contact:

Elie Domit

Creative Director

The Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography Gallery

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Tel: +971 50 55 33 879

www.theemptyquarter.com